Window-screen.



1). MUG. HENRY.

WINDOW SCREEN. APPLICATION FILED DEO.12, 1 908.

Patented Aug. 1909.

' INVENTOI? Mia M12? W/ TNE SSE S BY ATTORNEYS 'To all whom it may concern:

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DANIEL MCGOVERN HENRY, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, ASSIGN-OR OF ONE-HALF TO WILKIN M. .TOWLE, OF SOUTH BROOKLYN, GLEVELAND;OHIO.

,WINDOW-SGREEN.

.No. es1,42,1.

;; Specification of vLettersPatent.

I?atuentetlv Aug. 17, 1909.

Application filed December 12, 1908. Serial No. 467,165.

. Be it. known that I, DANIEL McGovnn I HENRY, a citizen of the United States, and

a resident of South Brooklyn, city of Cleve.

land, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented a newand Improved vl/Vindow-Soreen, of which the following is full, clear, and exact description.

Thisinvention relates to a class of window screens in whiclf two half sections for the screen are provided, which are hinged to gether at two vertical edges thereof and at their opposite edges enter grooves in the window casement when thescreen sections are full diverged so as to occupy the same verticaf plane. 1

The invention consists in novel details of construction, combined with a window screen of the character s ecified, which afford convenient and reliab e means for securing the fully extended screen in two opposits grooves in the stiles of the window casement, and permit the convenient removal thereof when this is desired.

The invention further consists in the specific novel construction of co-acting details, as is hereinafterdescribed and defined in the ap ended claim.

eferenoe is to be had to the aceompany ing drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views. Figure 1 is an inner side view of a window casement in part, showing the'lower sash raised and the improved window screen secured in lace within opposite vertical grooves in t e side stiles of the window casement; Fig. 2 is a sectional plan view on the line 22 of Fig. 1, of the stiles for a window casement and an upper edge view of the improved window screen, shown locked within the grooves in the casement stiles by full lines and adjusted for removal by dotted lines; and'Fig. 3 is an enlarged transverse sectional view on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1,

, showing the adjacent side bars of the frame of the window screen in closed condition and secured together.

In the'drawings, the window casement shown to illustrate the application of the improved screen to a window, is of usual form, mainly consisting of two vertical stiles 5, 5, spaced apart by a sill 5 anda cap piece, not shown.

Thestiles 5 are vertically grooved, as

similar frames 7 is such, that a side edge of each frame section may be readily introduced into an appropriate groove a.

The width of the air of screen frames 7 is nearly equal to that etween the bottom surfaces of the grooves a, a, in the easement stiles 5, 5, when said frames have the corresponding side edges thereof impinged upon each other.

To adapt the screen sections for cooperative service, two side edges thereof are rockably secured together by a pair of hinges b, l), which are respectively attached to similar sides of the border frames 7 respectively near the upper and lower transverse edges thereof by screws, as is shown in Fig. 1. In the sides of the frame members that are hinged together, and that are faced toward an operator within the room having the win dow, when the screen is placed in the window casement, a recess 6 is formed which is flat on the bottom and preferably has a circular side wall.

As shown in Fig. 3, the recess 0 is formed partially in the side bar of each frame section 7, the center thereof being located in one portion of said recess that is of greater width than the remaining ortion, and at said cen-. tral point, a turn button 8 is pivoted, as shown at d in said View.

In applying the window screen to an opened window, the two frame sections 7 are flexed so,as to bow outwardly, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2. This bowed adjustment of the screen sections will reduce the width between the outer side edges of the frame sections 7, as is represented at cin Fig. 2, which will permit the free location of said side edges opposite the respective grooves (1. Upon the inner surface of the side bar of one frame section 7, that is hinged to the similar side her oi the other i'rzune section, 21 grip piece of any SUitzli i0 i'orni :tiui material is secured. New, by taking huh! of this proievtion or grip piere with one hand, and holding the screen f'rzi nes while boned in preper position so that their outer si e edges are disposed opposite the grooves (I, :in in- \YtkHi pull on the grip pim'e wili rock the screen frames on their hinges and render them ievei. 'ihis adjustment of the screen frames 7 \viii pro iert their outer edges into The grooves 0'. and the s 'renn i'rinnes may he 'iilIHLY secured 1r ninsi; Jir-xure 0iti1iiIilil1QCS b in tnrningthe pivoted button 8, nm'oss the impinged siile bars of the frame seetions 7 into :i, horizontal position, so that it hears upon each frame section. F

er a removal of the window screen, the turn button 0 is turned into :1 Vertical-i posltion, and thus is removed from the [mine so ,iiiOil :ttiihs left in Fig. 3; the hinges i) may now he flexed, so as to how the frame sections 7 outwsri 'y, and thus detach them from the Windm casement.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

A windew screen, comprising two rectangn lnr frmnes, reticulated coverings for said l'rnines, hinges secured on the adjacent side members of the frames, and a turn button pivoted on one side member of one frame seated in a recess formed in both side members, and thus adapted for holding the frames disposed in the same plane when turned crosswise hf both frame members.

In testimony whereof i: hnVesigned .rny nznne to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

DANZEGL MCQHYVEEN HETTY.

Witnesses:

G. iiosmmiane, W. M. l0WL1i. 

